Barnardos - Manchester
Key Facts
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Project Criteria
Project funding
£100,000
Funding round
Barnardo's is a national charity delivering more than 350 services throughout the UK to around 140,000 children, young people and families. We focus on helping the most vulnerable children and young people transform their lives and fulfil their potential. We were established in 1899.
We are using the grant from the Parenting Fund to set up the 'Health Through Action' project. This project is a partnership between Barnardo's and George House Trust. It will develop and provide a range of services to support parents living with HIV to provide the best possible care for their children.
Barnardo's Health Through Action Project and George House Trust are members of a Greater Manchester HIV Partnership which brings together voluntary organisations providing support to people living with or affected by HIV in Greater Manchester. The aim of the partnership is to promote the best possible support for people with/affected by HIV in Greater Manchester. This will be achieved through the provision of a co-ordinated package of support services by partnership agencies, encouraging further investment in HIV voluntary care services by statutory and non-statutory funders, as well as working together to ensure that the voice of people with HIV is heard.
The project aims to:
- provide parenting support which will include peer support groups, parenting sessions and workshops as well as volunteer befriending support and outreach work. In working alongside parents with HIV, particular issues impacting on parents' confidence and skills as carers including stigma, isolation, unequal access to resources, bereavement, ill health and asylum status will all be taken into account
- share knowledge and information, increase skills and self esteem and foster peer support networks to enable parents to enjoy family life and to meet the health, emotional and educational needs of their children. Opportunities for other groups of parents (including those less well served by mainstream provision) to make use of the premises for their own carer and toddler group, support groups etc. will be facilitated.